Here we tell you how it was that They hijacked the planes of the September 11th in USA.
This September 11 marks 23 years since a great tragedy in the history of the United States and the world, after in 2001 a group of terrorists associated with the Al-Qaeda organization carried out a series of coordinated attacks against targets in that country that resulted in a total of 2,996 people dead, including passengers, airplane crews, people in the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and the terrorists.
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However, the attacks also caused significant damage to the United States’ infrastructure and economy.
For the above reasons, we will now tell you what happened in those 149 minutes of confusion, chaos and terror.
1- American Airlines Flight 11 (AA11) took off from Boston Logan International Airport bound for Los Angeles with maximum crew capacity, that is, the pilot and co-pilot plus nine flight attendants.
Among the 81 passengers were five attackers, one of whom was the tactical leader of the attacks, Egyptian Mohamed Atta.
As part of the implementation of the plan that had been hatched 5 years earlier, when Al Qaeda from its headquarters in Afghanistan was looking for ideas to attack the US, the ship was crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York, due to its real and symbolic importance.
2- At another terminal at the same Boston airport, United Airlines Flight 175 (UA175) also took off for Los Angeles, with nine crew members and 56 passengers. It was hijacked by five terrorists led by Marwan al-Shehhi.
The aircraft crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York.
3- Later, American Airlines Flight 77 (AA77), which took off from Washington-Dulles International Airport in Washington DC, with six crew members and 58 passengers, including five attackers led by Hani Hanjour, crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
4. Finally, Plane 4 of United Airlines Flight 93 (UA93), which took off from Newark International Airport in New Jersey bound for San Francisco and was scheduled to leave at 8:00 am, was delayed due to the amount of traffic that usually occurs in the mornings.
A seemingly trivial event that ended up being decisive in the attackers’ failure.
The flight took off with seven crew members and 37 passengers, including four hijackers, led by Ziad Jarrah, not five as on the other three planes.
This plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers attempted to regain control of the plane.
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It is worth noting that the four hijacked flights were scheduled to travel from coast to coast and, therefore, were carrying tanks loaded with up to 43,000 liters of fuel, which in the hands of the hijackers became piloted missiles.
In addition, to carry out this attack, hijackers used knives and sharp objects to threaten passengers and crew, and took control of the planes.
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2024-09-15 02:49:27